Duncan Coutts <duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Tue Jan 23 10:30:07 PST 2007 Ross Paterson <ross at soi.city.ac.uk>
> > * IsString is GHC-only (so why is it in the Prelude?)
>> Yes, can we please have a discussion about what's going on here.
> Changes to the base library are supposed to go via the libraries
> review process. I'm not complaining that we slipped up, I just want to
> make sure people can have a chance to comment.
I agree that this development is strange. The Prelude module in base is
supposed to export exactly and only the Haskell'98-specified Prelude.
There should be no proposed extensions in there, especially if they are
compiler-specific. There are lots of other places an extension can
live, e.g. GHC.Base
[ Actually, to be honest I'm not quite sure why the Prelude module lives
in the base package, rather than the haskell98 package? The same
question applies to the Numeric module. ]
Regards,
Malcolm